Political Effects on Justice in Indonesia: A Case Study of the Suharto Era, 1966–1998

Andi Muhammad Asrun

Abstract


The influence of authoritarian government power in Indonesia on the exercise of independent judicial power occurs from the judicial process to the financial, organizational, and administrative arrangements of judicial power. All executive influence on the judiciary must be seen in order to hinder the exercise of independent judicial power. The influence of government power on judicial independence since the Guided Democracy era under President Sukarno until the era of the New Order Government under President Suharto. Both era of authoritarian government worked hard to place judicial power under executive power both through the regulation of the law and intervention in the judicial process.


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Political; Justice; Indonesia

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